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Friday, March 23, 2012

Newspaper Article about John Hubbs #60, Revolutionary War Patriot, and his family

This article about John Hubbs appeared in the November 21-22, 1987 edition of the Times Tribune, a newspaper published in Corbin, Kentucky. It's transcribed below for ease of viewing. (Transcription was done with the aid of Google Docs OCR technology. Not perfect, but it saved me a lot of time!)

Many
people in the Tri-County area can trace their family line back to a 1
3-year-old Revolutionary soldier. It all started between December 25-31,
1763, in an area known as Hanging Rock, South Carolina.

John
Hubbs was born into a world where childhood was short lived. At age 13,
he enlisted as a Private in Captain Carson’s Company, Colonel Pickens
South Carolina Regiment. Little is known about John Hubbs’ war years,
but records have been found where he received land grants in South
Carolina in consideration for his military service. The earliest record
of this kind bears the year 1785.

John
stayed in South Carolina long enough to marry and to have two sons,
John Hubbs, born in 1333, and William Hubbs, born in 1 . 1793.

Both
sons followed their father, in later years, to Greene County,
Tennessee. The name of' John’s first wife is not known. But. he did
state in court records that she had died after the birth of their second
child.While
on a trip to the stock markets in Greeneville, Tennessee, John Hubbs, a
stock driver by vocation, met and married (October 5, 1795) his second
wife, Rebecca Woolsey. In 1797, John moved his family to the Raccoon
Valey area of Knox County, Tennessee. Most of their eight children were
born there. However, their third child, Willis, was born in what is
now Orange County, Indiana. What the were doing there is not clear, but
they did return to Tennessee soon afterwards.

the
children of this second marriage were Stephen (1798-1864), Jr.
(1800-1877), Willis (1301-1831), Joshua (1302-1866), Rutha (I803-?).
Sarah “Sally” (1805-1888), Polly (?), and Rachel (1810-?).Our
local lines are from John's son, Stephen, and daughter. Sarah. Stephen
married Elizabeth terrell and Sarah married, Jr. They were the children
of Solomon Terrell, Sr. (I770-1847), an Knox County, Kentucky, settler.

Two
of John's other children married Woolseys, who were distant cousins of
their mother. It is thought that the Terrell and Hubbs families met
while John lived for a short time in Knox County, Kentucky.Rebecca
Woolsey Hubbs was a descendant of colonial ancestors. Her parents were
Zephaniah Woolsey(1740), who was born in Marlborough, New York, and
Sarah Woolsey (1747) was born in New York. Zephaniah and Sarah were no
closer than fourth cousins. They were the parents of 12 children,
several whom settled in Greene County, Tennessee.

Both
Woolseys trace their ancestry back to Rebecca Cornell Woolsey who was
born (1629) in County Essex, England, and was the wife of George
Woolsey. They lived in what is new the Bronx in New York City. Her
parents were Thomas Cornell (1595-1656) and Rebecca Briggs (1600-1673).
Old records prove Thomas Cronell, Jr. was hanged for the murder of his
aged mother.

Ezra
Cronell, founder of Cornell University, organizer of Western Union
Telegraph Company, and whose brother became a governor of New York, was a
direct descendant off this Cornell family. William Walton Woolsey,
another direct descendant, was the President of Yale from 1846-1871.
Rebecca Briggs Cornell’s brother was the founder of Newport, Rhode
Island.

Now
back to John Hubbs...John's children were scattered across eastern
Tennessee, southeastern Kentucky, Illinois and Indiana. It has been
proven that he kept in touch with all of them. Travel in those days was a
long and hard process. It could take weeks to cover a few hundred
miles.

John's
second wife, Rebecca Woolsey Hubbs was said to have died in childbirth
before 1819. John married a widow, Mary Jones, and this marriage
produced three sons and one daughter. All of these children stayed in
Tennessee. However, this third marriage ended in divorce. In 1844 while
on a visit to his son, John Jr., he became sick and died. John left
behind at least 14 children and thousands of descendants. These
descendants from every corner of this nation, still today, gather every
other year in Tennessee for a family reunion.

Of the several hundred who attend, most of his 14 children are represented by their descendants.Hubbs
was buried in Union County (then Grainger County), Tennessee. If you go
from Cumberland Gap to Knoxville, you will pass sign along the road
that reads: Hubbs Graveyard, Clear Branch. In a grove of trees, just
back from the highway, is a headstone for John Hubbs, Revolutionary
War.

The information on the Hubbs family was provided by David Grant and
information on the Woolsey-Cornell families was provided by Steve Alsip.